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Published 22 September 2022
You probably can’t get the newly launched commercial television yet, but here’s how it works
Published 27 December 2021
Part Nine: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
Published 18 December 2020
The last-ditch effort to prevent commercial television from being born
Published 29 October 2018
In 1980, Jack Tinker, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, turns his unsympathetic eye to the launch of ITV in 1955
Published 9 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television in 1966
Published 22 June 2017
The Robert Fraser Lectures [1/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority describes the foundations of ITV in 1955
Published 6 October 2014
CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: How vague legislation created a pin-sharp television system
Published 1 April 2005
Three regions, four contractors. How? Why? asks Richard G Elen
Published 1 January 2002
The Television Act 1954 didn’t create ITV – the genius of Sir Kenneth Clark did that